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May 8, 2021 · Fundamentals

Which Programming Languages Are Dying? A Deep Dive into Perl, Haskell, Ruby, and More

The article surveys five programming languages—Perl, Haskell, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, and Object Pascal—explaining why each is considered obsolete, illustrating their decline with historical context, code examples, and industry opinions, and questioning whether they are truly dead or merely fading.